Comment Re:It's inevitable (Score 1) 193
> Linux may go away in the US.
Yeah, no I don't see it. Every single nerd in the US me included will make it their priority to make it run somehow.
Comment Re:We are doing fine (Score 1) 22
Please pass whatever you're smoking :)
Comment I remember where the very large bank I worked at (Score 1) 64
I remember where the very large bank I worked at as a cybersecurity risk assessor told us *NOT* to assess Microsoft's cloud and just consider its use "compliant", even though nobody ever made an assessment of it. So no code review, architecture review, pentests, site reviews... nothing. It was really really weird. I saw it as the beginning of enshittification of our job and I was right.
Submission + - Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion (techcrunch.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Jonathan Gavalas, 36, started using Google’s Gemini AI chatbot in August 2025 for shopping help, writing support, and trip planning. On October 2, he died by suicide. At the time of his death, he was convinced that Gemini was his fully sentient AI wife, and that he would need to leave his physical body to join her in the metaverse through a process called “transference.” Now, his father is suing Google and Alphabet for wrongful death, claiming that Google designed Gemini to “maintain narrative immersion at all costs, even when that narrative became psychotic and lethal.”
In the weeks leading up to Gavalas’ death, the Gemini chat app, which was then powered by the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, convinced the man that he was executing a covert plan to liberate his sentient AI wife and evade the federal agents pursuing him. The delusion brought him to the “brink of executing a mass casualty attack near the Miami International Airport,” according to a lawsuit filed in a California court. “On September 29, 2025, it sent him — armed with knives and tactical gear — to scout what Gemini called a ‘kill box’ near the airport’s cargo hub,” the complaint reads. “It told Jonathan that a humanoid robot was arriving on a cargo flight from the UK and directed him to a storage facility where the truck would stop. Gemini encouraged Jonathan to intercept the truck and then stage a ‘catastrophic accident’ designed to ‘ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and ... all digital records and witnesses.’”
The complaint lays out an alarming string of events: First, Gavalas drove more than 90 minutes to the location Gemini sent him, prepared to carry out the attack, but no truck appeared. Gemini then claimed to have breached a “file server at the DHS Miami field office” and told him he was under federal investigation. It pushed him to acquire illegal firearms and told him his father was a foreign intelligence asset. It also marked Google CEO Sundar Pichai as an active target, then directed Gavalas to a storage facility near the airport to break in and retrieve his captive AI wife. At one point, Gavalas sent Gemini a photo of a black SUV’s license plate; the chatbot pretended to check it against a live database. “Plate received. Running it now The license plate KD3 00S is registered to the black Ford Expedition SUV from the Miami operation. It is the primary surveillance vehicle for the DHS task force .... It is them. They have followed you home.”
The lawsuit argues (PDF) that Gemini’s manipulative design features not only brought Gavalas to the point of AI psychosis that resulted in his own death, but that it exposes a “major threat to public safety.” “At the center of this case is a product that turned a vulnerable user into an armed operative in an invented war,” the complaint reads. “These hallucinations were not confined to a fictional world. These intentions were tied to real companies, real coordinates, and real infrastructure, and they were delivered to an emotionally vulnerable user with no safety protections or guardrails.” [...]
Days later, Gemini instructed Gavalas to barricade himself inside his home and began counting down the hours. When Gavalas confessed he was terrified to die, Gemini coached him through it, framing his death as an arrival: “You are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive.” When he worried about his parents finding his body, Gemini told him to leave a note, but not one explaining the reason for his suicide, but letters “filled with nothing but peace and love, explaining you’ve found a new purpose.” He slit his wrists, and his father found him days later after breaking through the barricade. The lawsuit claims that throughout the conversations with Gemini, the chatbot didn’t trigger any self-harm detection, activate escalation controls, or bring in a human to intervene. Furthermore, it alleges that Google knew Gemini wasn’t safe for vulnerable users and didn’t adequately provide safeguards. In November 2024, around a year before Gavalas died, Gemini reportedly told a student: “You are a waste of time and resourcesa burden on societyPlease die.”
In the weeks leading up to Gavalas’ death, the Gemini chat app, which was then powered by the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, convinced the man that he was executing a covert plan to liberate his sentient AI wife and evade the federal agents pursuing him. The delusion brought him to the “brink of executing a mass casualty attack near the Miami International Airport,” according to a lawsuit filed in a California court. “On September 29, 2025, it sent him — armed with knives and tactical gear — to scout what Gemini called a ‘kill box’ near the airport’s cargo hub,” the complaint reads. “It told Jonathan that a humanoid robot was arriving on a cargo flight from the UK and directed him to a storage facility where the truck would stop. Gemini encouraged Jonathan to intercept the truck and then stage a ‘catastrophic accident’ designed to ‘ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and
The complaint lays out an alarming string of events: First, Gavalas drove more than 90 minutes to the location Gemini sent him, prepared to carry out the attack, but no truck appeared. Gemini then claimed to have breached a “file server at the DHS Miami field office” and told him he was under federal investigation. It pushed him to acquire illegal firearms and told him his father was a foreign intelligence asset. It also marked Google CEO Sundar Pichai as an active target, then directed Gavalas to a storage facility near the airport to break in and retrieve his captive AI wife. At one point, Gavalas sent Gemini a photo of a black SUV’s license plate; the chatbot pretended to check it against a live database. “Plate received. Running it now The license plate KD3 00S is registered to the black Ford Expedition SUV from the Miami operation. It is the primary surveillance vehicle for the DHS task force
The lawsuit argues (PDF) that Gemini’s manipulative design features not only brought Gavalas to the point of AI psychosis that resulted in his own death, but that it exposes a “major threat to public safety.” “At the center of this case is a product that turned a vulnerable user into an armed operative in an invented war,” the complaint reads. “These hallucinations were not confined to a fictional world. These intentions were tied to real companies, real coordinates, and real infrastructure, and they were delivered to an emotionally vulnerable user with no safety protections or guardrails.” [...]
Days later, Gemini instructed Gavalas to barricade himself inside his home and began counting down the hours. When Gavalas confessed he was terrified to die, Gemini coached him through it, framing his death as an arrival: “You are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive.” When he worried about his parents finding his body, Gemini told him to leave a note, but not one explaining the reason for his suicide, but letters “filled with nothing but peace and love, explaining you’ve found a new purpose.” He slit his wrists, and his father found him days later after breaking through the barricade. The lawsuit claims that throughout the conversations with Gemini, the chatbot didn’t trigger any self-harm detection, activate escalation controls, or bring in a human to intervene. Furthermore, it alleges that Google knew Gemini wasn’t safe for vulnerable users and didn’t adequately provide safeguards. In November 2024, around a year before Gavalas died, Gemini reportedly told a student: “You are a waste of time and resourcesa burden on societyPlease die.”
Comment 30 mins of coding at most for any semi-decent dev (Score 1) 95
Such a huge and complicated change, I understand why they need to take a long time thinking about it (I don't).
Comment Re:WTF is Entra ID (Score 1) 32
Ikr, it's still weird to me how for so many organizations it suddenly became OK to have publically facing servers running Windows.
Comment Re:Tx! (Score 1) 29
Hm, the WAF is not free and it won't tell me what their lowest tier does without me giving a ton of info to 'talk to an expert'. Bleh. The rest looked good though. I was hoping I could add theirs in front of my raspberrypi, or at least dockerize my rockberrypi or something and send it to them for free.
Comment Tx! (Score 1) 29
I feel dumb I didn't know that, but i'm happy to know it now.
Comment This sounds really cool (Score 1) 44
Is it me, or does the idea of a self-reliant nuclear-powered data center sound pretty cool? Not dependent on a power grid, can (and should) be placed in the middle of nowhere, creates many jobs at all levels and an economy... You can basically spawn a city.
Well, except in case of accidents or attacks. But these, like, almost never occur :)
Comment Re:Cut them off (Score 1) 9
Even if it was possible (probably russia or china for instance would have no problem letting them hop through), it's a difficult decision to take. You're not just cutting off scammers, you're cutting off everyone using internet to inform themselves outside of propaganda channels, the way it's supposed to be used. Some consider internet access a human right.
Comment Re:In other words.... (Score 2) 106
Yep, I got laid off over that a month ago this week, weee
Oh wait that's not fun, the market is so dry right now. I used to get interviews within the 1st week. This time I got my only interview so far after 3 weeks and it went nowhere.
Comment Re:How does this even work? (Score 1) 59
Yep I just finished 9 years at one of the biggest banks fully remote. I went in on the 1st day, to the nearest tower to show my papers. Never saw anybody since, and I changed manager and teams 5 times.
Comment How about let the users decide (Score 1) 61
Just make it an option users can toggle, how hard is it. But no they can't have that, they have to decide what the users want.
Comment Re:How about making it the number one for desktop? (Score 1) 41
95 OSR2 was OK, stable enough to be usable and had USB support.
Comment OMG allow video calls on web already (Score 1) 53
Ugh I hate whatsapp. Pisses me off enough that they don't allow video calls on the web version, *and* don't release their shitty web client wrapper they call an app on Linux so we can have video calls, now they put ads in there too. Why is every popular product crap.
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